How to display the user name in Audit Log UI if there is no name field?

[ludgerey]

The user is not shown in the Audit Log UI. I assume it's because I don't have the default name field on the user. I am using given_name and family_name. Is there a way to render the user name in that audit log?

The corresponding HTTP response:

{
  "status": "OK",
  "audits": {
    "current_page": 1,
    "data": [
      {
        "id": 664,
        "user_type": "App\\User",
        "user_id": 2,
        "event": "updated",
        "auditable_type": "App\\User",
        "auditable_id": 2,
        "old_values": {
          ...
        },
        "new_values": {
          ...
        },
        "url": ...,
        "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
        "user_agent": "Mozilla\/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_2) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/79.0.3945.130 Safari\/537.36",
        "tags": null,
        "created_at": "2020-01-29 16:07:07",
        "updated_at": "2020-01-29 16:07:07",
        "user": {
          "id": 2,
          "given_name": "John",
          "family_name": "Doe",
          "email": "test@example.com",
          "email_verified_at": "2020-01-29 14:54:55",
          "created_at": "2020-01-29 14:54:55",
          "updated_at": "2020-01-29 16:07:07",
          "deleted_at": null
        }
      },
      ...
    ],
  },
}

I think the perfect solution would be a rendering like Nova does in the usual data grids: Using the Nova Resource for title() and a link to the corresponding record.

[recycledbeans]

Hey @ludgerey I think the idea of using the title is a good idea and would be open to adding that feature at some point. In the meantime, if you do not use the name attribute in your User model, you can create a dynamic name attribute using a model accessor ( See defining an accessor: https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/eloquent-mutators#defining-an-accessor).

In addition to this, I would recommend adding that attribute to the appends array of your User model as well, so that it is added to the JSON output (See appending values to JSON: https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/eloquent-serialization#appending-values-to-json).

I hope this helps!

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[recycledbeans]

I'm going actually close this issue since the name field is pretty common and the accessor method should work for the majority of cases that don't use a "name" field.